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Bidding Information
Lot #    4422
Auction End Date    4/29/2003 1:30:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Novellae and Responsa from the Hida
Title (Hebrew)    מכתב מהחיד'א זצ'ל
Author    [Manuscript] R. Chaim Joseph David Azulai
City    [Leghorn]
Publication Date    c. 1790
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2] f., 250:95 mm., light browning.
          
Paragraph 1    Ink on paper, approximately 35 lines per page, written in Sephardic script.
          
Detailed
Description		    Responsa in the Hida's hand on the subject of Sefer Torah.
          
Paragraph 2    The Hida was born in Jerusalem; he was descended on his father's side from a prominent family of rabbis and kabbalists from Spain while his mother was a daughter of Joseph Bialer who had gone to Erez Israel with Judah Hasid in 1770. He studied under some of the outstanding Jewish scholars of his age including R. Jonah Navon, R. Isaac ha-Kohen Rapoport, and R. Chaim ibn Attar. The Hida attained early eminence in Jewish studies and was regarded as the leading scholar of his generation. Possessed of great intellectual powers and many-faceted talents, he combined a religious and mystical ardor with an insatiable intellectual curiosity. Added to these were critical ability, a facile pen, and a boundless capacity for work. He spent most of his active years traveling abroad as an emissary of the communities of Erez Israel for the collection of funds for the upkeep of the academies and scholars. He ended his mission in 1778 in Leghorn, where he spent the rest of his life. Many stories were related of the wonders and miracles he performed. Pilgrimages were made to his tomb at Leghorn until, some 150 years after his death, in 1960, his remains were reinterred in Jerusalem.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
Responsa:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Responsa:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica